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ANNUAL REPORT 1.
ACADEMICS This year, 414 students of the School appeared in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education. 54% of the successful students scored marks above 80% and 21% of the successful students scored above 90% marks. Pallavi Gupta topped the School and stood first in the Commerce stream with an aggregate of 96.8% marks. Gauri Chandra was the topper of the Humanities stream with 96% marks. Both, Avi Agarwal and Dhruv Chand Aggarwal were the toppers of Science stream with 95% marks. There are six students who scored 100% marks in some subjects in class XII. Mayank Chandna & Abhiroop Aggarwal scored in Mathematics whereas Arushi Khosla, Anjali Kumar, Saloni Gautam & Vrinda Agrawal did it in Psychology. With immense pleasure, I would like to place on record that twenty one students from the batch of 2012 namely –Anjali Kumar, Arushi Khosla, Madhav Seth, Malvika Bhatia, Saloni Gautam, Selene Khosla, Vansha Sethi, Vrinda Agrawal, Akshita Singal, Abhiroop Aggarwal, Alisha Mobin, Arjun Pratap Sindhu, Jyotsna Mahajan, Kavya Gupta, Pallavi Gupta, Avi Agarwal, Mayank Chandna, Devika Aggarwal, Dhruv Chand Aggarwal, Tanvi Gupta and Aditya Aggarwal, have been awarded the Merit Certificates by the C.B.S.E. for their being within the „top 0.1%‟ (subject wise) in the All India Senior School Certificate Examinations held in March 2012. Four students from the batch of 2012, namely – Avi Agarwal, Dhruv Chand Aggarwal, Parth Bansal and Sheikh Farhan Amin, have qualified for award of „Scholarship for Higher Education‟ (SHE) from the C.B.S.E. for their being within „top 1%‟ (in aggregate) in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination of the CBSE held in March 2012. The All India Secondary School Certificate Examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education was taken by 336 students. Similarly, twenty five students (presently in class XI) namely –Anurag Bagga, Natasha Panesar, Akshit Choudhary, Bhuvan Agrawal, Devyani Aggarwal, Jai Sahni, Punya Taneja, Samika wadhwa, Shohtaj Singh, Sunny Gakhar, Tejas Sirohi, Aarushi Gupta, Natasha Raj Mehta, Saurabh Sharma, Shikhar Sharma, Kriti Garg, Megha Bansal, Saniya Maini, Siddharth Seth, Subhangi Chandan, Akanksha Wasan, Bhavya Garg, Gunank Hora, Rishi Madhok and Shrey Rajesh, have been awarded Merit Certificates by the C.B.S.E. for obtaining „Grade A1‟ in all the five subjects in the All India Secondary School Certificate Examination held in March 2012. Akshaye Singhi, Rachit Bansal and Aakash Bhalotia, all three from class S5, have qualified the Junior Science Talent Search Examination - 2012 and have been selected to get the JSTSE Scholarship. In the Talent Reward Examination conducted by FIIT-JEE in December 2011, Aatmik Gupta, Devyangi Upadhyay and Utsav Garg became Zonal Toppers - Rank-I, II & III respectively.
Aatmik Gupta secured first position in both, Science EduOlympiad and Mathematics EduOlympiad conducted by Educomp Online Supplemental Services Pvt. Ltd. and got cash prize of Rs.1,00,00/- for each Olympiad. 2.
AWARD TO TEACHERS Mrs.Meena Joshi, presently Dean-Physical Education of our school, is the proud recipient of coveted „CBSE Award to Teachers for the Year 2011‟ in September 2012 by the Central Board of Secondary Education. Mrs.Baveen Gupta, School Counsellor, has been awarded with the „Yale Educator Award 2012‟ by Yale Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Yale University, U.S.A., for inspiring and supporting to achieve excellence.
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STUDENTS’/TEACHERS’ EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Our Seventh International „Community Development & Leadership Summit‟ (C.D.L.S. 2012) on ‘Women Empowerment’ will start on 5th November 2012 and conclude on 11th November 2012. The participants of the CDLS-2012 are students and teachers from twenty five schools from twenty three countries across five continents. During the year, our students programmes/conferences:
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Date 26-30 May 2012 6-12 June 2012
Purpose/Host School „Summit‟ at St.George‟s School, Malaysia
Names of Students & Teachers Three students of class XII Teacher – Mrs.Deepa Kapoor
Students‟ Exchange Programme at Beijing New Oriental Foreign Language School, Ynagzhou, Beijing, China
Eight students of class XII Teachers – Mrs.Meghna Kapoor & Mr.Somesh Singh
17-25 June 2012 20-30 June 2012 22-30 June 2012
„Summit‟ at Malay College, Malaysia
Three students of class X Teacher – Mrs.Seema Puri
„Twinning Programme‟ at Liebigschule Giessen, Germany
Eight students of class XII Teacher – Mr.Goutam Sarkar
„Students‟ Exchange Programme‟ at Liaoning Province Shiyan High School, Shenyang, China
Nine students of class XII Teachers – Mrs.Jyoti Saxena & Mr.Rajvir Singh Jiani
2 - 9 July 2012
„Students‟ Exchange Programme‟ at Sikoh Seriputeri, Malaysia
Eight students of class XII Teacher – Mrs.Harleen Chadha
12-18 July 2012
„Asian Young Leaders‟ Convention 2012‟ River Valley High School, Singapore
Ten students of class XII Teacher – Mrs.Vandana Dhawan
21-30 July 2012
„Summit‟ at India China Alliance for Cooperation, Beijing, China
Twenty students of class XII Teachers – Mrs.Sonal Bedi and Mr.L.D.Pant
28 July6 Aug. 2012 29 Sept. 8 Oct. 2012
„Students‟ Exchange Programme‟ Clifton School, Durban, South Africa
Six students of class XII Teacher – Mr.Rajesh
Collegiate School, Virginia, USA
Three students of class XI Teacher – Mrs.Meena Joshi
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR TEACHERS Teachers of almost all the subjects, besides the school‟s librarians, counselors and the school doctor, attended various workshops and seminars conducted by the C.B.S.E., N.C.E.R.T., N.P.S.C., other schools and hospitals during the year.
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WELLNESS CENTRE/COUNSELLING DEPARTMENT To propagate the importance of leading a healthy and positive lifestyle, the Wellness Centre of our school organized its annual event 'Good Life Campaign' from 19 to 21st December 2011. Marathon, Modern Master Chef, Graffiti Making and Inter-school Band competitions were highlights of the event. After holding „Aptitude Testing‟ & „Goal Setting Workshop‟ for students of class S5 and on the basis of detailed analysis their aptitude & suggested careers, individual counseling for the student & parent was arranged by the expert career counsellors from „Eduignite‟ (Educomp Solutions Ltd.) from 16th to 25th January 2012. An Orientation Programme was held for parents of the students of class S4 & S5 on 15th
and 16th March 2012, for helping them have deeper understanding of the Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) & its requirements, and to ensure better performance of their wards in their academic journey. „Career Awareness Week‟ was organized for students of class S6 and their parents from 2nd to 4th April 2012. The Career Counsellors from Eduignite separately addressed the students opting for Science, Commerce & Humanities stream on different days and gave them details of the academic institutions for higher studies in the respective fields. On 4th April 2012, the school organized an orientation programme for parents of students of class P5 of R.S.Junior Modern School, Humayun Road, whose wards were to join class S1 in senior school from April 2012. Dr.Jitendra Nagpal, a well known Consulting Psychiatrist, addressed them on parenting of early adolescent child and „Handling Transitions‟. From 19th to 22nd April 2012, Peer Trainers of our school participated in the „International Life Skills, School Health and Well-Being Summit 2012‟ organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education in collaboration with Expressions India. Our students presented a choir followed by a band performance. Siddharth Seth and Asees Bhasin won the first prize in „Health Quiz‟. Devyani Aggarwal won a consolation prize in elocution competition. During April and May 2012, officials of various universities from USA visited us and made presentations to our senior school students on „registration procedure‟, writing „essay‟ & „student profile‟ etc. Subsequently, Counselling Department held a workshop on „comparative study‟ of all these universities. To hone skills in the field of journalism, a few students of class XI - Subhangi Chandan, Prachi Narang, Swarnim Jain and Akanksha Wasan did an internship programme with the Times of India during summer vacation. On 19th July 2012, Peer Trainers addressed all girls from class S3 about dangers of cyber space & cyber bullying. They also took up specific issues that might cause them mental trauma. Being girls themselves, they understood their sentiments and tried to help them for the problems that they shared. A workshop was conducted from 16th to 18th October 2012 by doctor from Fortis Healthcare for Peer Trainers on topics „Alcohol Use & Abuse‟, „Anti Bullying‟, „Study Skills‟ and „Stress Management‟. Our school‟s Counsellor regularly stays in touch with students having „Special Education Needs‟ (SEN) to understand their requirements and also arranges help for them through their peers & teachers, and meets with their parents to know their progress as a process check. The whole programme operates in a very structured manner for effective results. In collaboration ORKIDS Foundation, our school has set up a Learning Centre in school for students with Learning Difficulties (LD). The process of „Online‟ Study Abroad Application is operating successfully under the guidance of School Counsellor. Several students had offers from as many as twelve or thirteen US universities and they joined the following universities:
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Aahan Malik Abhishek Goel Aditya Aggarwal Akash Kapoor Aneesh Gupta Arushi Khosla Avantika Sood Dhruv Chand Aggarwal Lakshay Naran Madhav Seth Malavika Bhatia Richa Mohan Ragini Talreja Saanchi Kapoor Shivankar Bahl
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University of California, San Diego New York University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley New York University Fashion Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley Yale University New York Univeristy The University of Chicago New York University Carnegie Mellon University Fashion Institute of Technology Fashion Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego
CLUBS’/SOCIETIES’ REPORT ASTRONOMY CLUB Members of the Astronomy Club attended sessions in school on „Biography of Stars‟, „Total Lunar Eclipse‟ and „International Space Stations‟ during December 2011. They also attended a „Solar Eclipse Conference at Vishwa Yuva Kendra from 15th to 17th December 2011. The club members also attended outdoor sessions which included a learning session at Jantar Mantar on 15th February 2012 and an overnight sky observation session in a village in Haryana on 17th February 2012. Our students - Saahil Vashishth, Abhishek Verma, Hassan Ejaz, Kushal Dalal, Bhavya Aggarwal, Divam, Anuraag and Dhruv Jain participated in the International Space Settlement Design competition organized by NASA in January 2012 in Gurgaon. Our students won the Runners Up title. Three members of the Astronomy Club participated in the Annual Space Art Contest organized by the Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi on 23rd April 2012. Keshav Nagpal (S2) got the third prize for his drawing in this contest. A group of eight Astronomy Club members viz. Tanmaye Soni, Adhikansh Jain, Drona Srivastava, Nitish Gupta, Vishesh Aggarwal, Shivam Bose, Srishti Baid, Mallika Nagpal, Tushaar Goel, escorted by Mrs.Subhashini Sinha visited Shanghai and Beijing from 4th to 11th June to observe the rare celestial event „Venus Transit‟ and found it a great learning experience. Another group of twenty four students together with Mrs.Subhashini Sinha, Dr.Vandana Varma and Mr.D.P.Singh visited Kennedy Space Centre, Orlando, USA, New York and Washington D.C. from 18th to 29th June 2012. In group activities at the Kennedy Space Centre, our students made hydro-rockets, robots and learnt about GPS. Niharika Shukla (S3) and Gunika Kaur (S3) together stood first in the junior category in Annual Astronomy Quiz conducted by Nehru Planetarium on 27th August 2012. The Club In-charge, with the help of resource persons from SPACE, conducted various sessions for the member of the Astronomy Club on the topics– „Introduction and Jobl‟,
„Asteroid & Space Events‟, „Time & Directions‟ etc. during September and October 2012. To celebrate the „World Space Week‟, Sukanya Viswanathan (S3) delivered a talk on „Space for Human Safety & Security‟ during assembly in October 2012. BITS ‘N’ BYTES CLUB Bits „N‟ Bytes, the Computer Club of our School, organized two-day Computer Fest „ACCESS 2011‟ on 23rd & 24th December 2011. The symposium was attended by approximately 1500 students from over 80 leading schools of Delhi and NCR. Various events such as Software Display, Programming, Web Page Designing, Gaming, Robotics, Group Discussion, Quiz, Video Editing, Audio Editing, Story Telling, Fancy Dress etc. were organized according to categories viz. Open, Senior, Junior, Sub-junior and Cadet. The overall championship was bagged by Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram. Our students also participated in various inter school computer symposia during the year and won more than 20 accolades and some are listed below: Dates
Name of school that organized the Fest
Name of Event & Prize
Name of the Winner
Nov.2011
Delhi Public School, Noida
Photoshop – 1st
Aditya Gupta
Nov.2011
Apeejay School, Noida
Web Designing–3rd
Divam Gupta & Siddhant Dalmia
July 2012
Apeejay School, Sheikh Sarai
Quiz – 3rd
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Software Display–2nd
Siddhant Dalmia & Divam Gupta
July 2012
Montfort School, Ashok Vihar
Cyquest – 2nd Crossword – 3rd
Naman Dhanuka Naman Dhanuka
Aug.2012
Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj
Surprize Event – 1st
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Video Editing – 1st
Ansh Mehra & Shahnil Samantra
Aug.2012
Mother‟s Intl. School, Aurobindo Marg
Surprize Event – 2nd
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Aug.2012
Airforce School, Subroto Park
Quiz – 1st
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Oct. 2012
All India I.P.S.C. Tech Fest held at Welham Boys‟ School, Dehradun
Quiz – 1st
Naman Dhanuka, Apratim C. Singh & Shantanu Bhatia
Digi Imaging – 1st
Abhay Makhija & Ansh Mehra
Programming – 2nd
Ansh Goyal
Quiz – 1st
Naman Dhanuka &
Oct.2012
Mayoor School, Noida
Apratim C. Singh
Oct.2012
Delhi Public School, Sushant Lok
Group Discussion-3rd
Shohtaj Singh
Quiz – 1st
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Crossword – 2nd
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Oct.2012
Amity Institute of Engineering & Technology, Noida
Inter College Quiz-1st
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Oct.2012
Modern School, Vasant Vihar
Quiz – 1st
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Group Discussion-2nd Inter College Quiz – 2nd
Shojtaj Singh Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Oct.2012
I.I.I.T. Delhi
Oct.2012
Mount St.Mary‟s School, Delhi Cantt.
Crossword – 3rd
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
Oct.2012
St.Xavier‟s School
Quiz – 1st
Naman Dhanuka & Apratim C. Singh
BIOTECHNOLOGY CLUB In February 2012, the Genetics Congress Trust, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa Road, New Delhi held a comprehensive lecture on career opportunities in Biotechnology for our students of class S5 and later organized a „Quiz‟ on Genetics and Genomics. On 8th May 2012, a selected group of students attended an Orientation Programme on „Genetics & Biodiversity‟ organized by the Genetics Congress
Trust at I.A.R.I. and visited the plant tissue culture & genomics facility at National Research Centre for Plant Biotechnology at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute, Pusa Campus. CHEMISTRY CLUB – ‘EFFERVESCENCE’ Students of class S3 were taken to National Science Centre, Delhi to see exhibition on „Water – An Elixir of Life‟ in January 2012. In August 2012, a collage making competiton was organized for students of classes S4 & S5 on the topics - Nuclear Disaster, Oil Spills, Biological Welfare, Chemistry in Dentistry, g-suits etc. Students were taken to National Science Centre, Delhi on 4th September 2012 to attend a workshop on „Green Renewable Sources of Energy‟. The resource person navigated them through the journey of renewable energy and emphasized on the need to design alternate means to meet growing demands. The Chemistry Club organized its second symposium „Ignition 2012‟ on 15th October 2012. More than 13 reputed schools from across the city participated in various competitions viz. poster making, magix in chemistry, comedy skit in chemistry, missing marbles, power point presentations etc. organized during the symposium. Dr.Sreekumar Chokalingam from National Physical Laboratory enlightened all present with his latest research on „Graphene‟. Our school was the winner in two events – magix in chemistry and comedy skit in chemistry. DEBATING SOCIETY The Debating Society of our school organized its Annual Literary Festival on 9th and 10th May 2012, which included debates in English & Hindi and „Ars Poetica‟, the poetry recitation competition in English. More than ten reputed schools of Delhi participated in the event. Our students won in the following categories: Name/Category Raghubir Singh Memorial Debate (for seniors)
Awards - Best Team
Names of Schools/Students Modern School, Barakhamba Road (Team-Pranay Lekhi,Arkaj Kumar)
Pratap Singh Memorial Debate (for juniors)
Sub-junior Debate
Ars Poetica (for seniors)
Ars Poetica (for juniors) Hindi Debate
-1st Runner Up (Against) - Best Team
-Pranay Lekhi
-Best Speaker (For)
Arjun Chhabra
-1st Runner Up (Against) -Best Team
Mehar Haleem
-Most Promising Speaker -Best Speaker
Akshat Singhal
-Winners
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
-Runners Up
Delhi Public School, MathuraRoad
-Winners
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
-Runners Up
Birla Vidya Niketan, Push Vihar
-Best Team
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
Modern School, Barakhamba Road (Arjun Chhabra, Meher Haleem)
Modern School, Vasant Vihar
Arjun
Our students participated in numerous inter school debates and won prizes listed below: Dates 3 Dec. 2011
Name of the Organizing School Mira Model School, New Delhi
Name of the Winner & Title Won Gayatri Sabharwal – Best Speaker Anushka Jindal – Best Interjector Modern School, Barakhamba Road – First Runners Up (Gayatri Sabharwal, Anushka Jindal)
26 Dec. 2011
April 2012
Rotary National Elocution Competition Organized by Rotary International in our school Springdales School, Pusa Road
Pranay Lekhi – Best Speaker
Prabhmeher Nanda – Best Speaker Pranay Lekhi – Consolation Modern School, Barakhamba Road Best Team (Prabhmeher Nanda, Pranay Lekhi)
April 2012
Modern School, Vasant Vihar
Modern School, Barakhamba Road – First Runners Up (Pranay Lekhi, Gayatri Sabharwal, Devyani Aggarwal)
April 2012
Y.W.C.A. New Delhi
Modern School, Barakhamba Road– Best Team (Prabhmeher Nanda, Arkaj Kumar, Shantanu Bhatia, Akanksha Wasan)
Arkaj Kumar – Best Speaker April 2012
„Cicero‟s Challenge Debate‟ organized by I.I.P.M.
Pranay Lekhi – Second Best Speaker - Best Interjector - Cash prize of Rs.50,000/-
July 2012
The Air Force School, New Delhi
Modern School, Barakhamba Road– Best Team (Pranay Lekhi, Prabhmeher Nanda, Arkaj Kumar)
July 2012
The Shri Ram School, Mousari Avenue, Gurgaon
Pranay Lekhi - Best Speaker -Overall Second Best Speaker Arkaj Kumar - „Second Best Speaker‟
Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram
Prabhmeher Singh – Best Speaker Modern School, Barakhamba Road Best Team(Pranay Lekhi, Prabhmeher Nanda)
Mayo College Girls‟ School, Ajmer
Prelimnary Round: Pranay Lekhi – Best Speaker (Against) Prabhmeher Nanda – Best Speaker (For) Quarter Finals Pranay Lekhi – Best Speaker
Yadavindra Public School, Patiala
Pranay Lekhi – Overall Best Speaker Modern School, Barakhamba Road – Third (Pranay Lekhi, Pranav Sahni, Shantanu Bhatia)
EDITORIAL BOARD – ‘SANDESH’ AND ‘E-SANDESH’ Our Editorial Board continues to maintain its high standards. All students across classes are involved in the publication work. The Middle School students are encouraged to publish ‘Modern School Chronicle’. The „Red Brick Times‟ is published by the students of Secondary School while the school‟s magazine „Sandesh‟ is published by the Senior School students. Another arm has been added to our „Ed Board‟ by publishing „E-magazine’ twice in a year. ECONOMICS SOCIETY - ‘ARTHGAURAVAM’, To inculcate interest of the students in the subject, the Society organized a „Dynamic Entrepreneurship‟ event in the month of April 2012. With waste material, students creatively made products like lamp shades, multi-purpose containers, book-ends, magnetic photo frames etc. Further, their persuasion and marketing skills were tested and they these products to their peers. In April 2012, members of Society held Half-a-Minute-Just-a-Minute (HAM-JAM) session and held enriching discussion on contemporary topics like „West to East – Who will
dominate the World Economy‟, „Outsourcing and its Impacts‟, „Mandatory 2% - Corporate Social Responsibility‟. In May 2012, experts from Competition Commission of India made a presentation about the new „Competition Act‟ to reduce monopolistic tendencies/malpractices in economy by big players and sustain/promote competition to protect consumers. In July 2012, members of Economics Society held a discussion session on „Micro Finance‟ for students of Economics. The Economics Society organized its annual symposium „Arthnama 2012‟ on 5th October 2012 and participation by over twelve reputed schools of Delhi made the event interesting & successful. The „Cost management‟ and „Bazaar‟ activities were won by Blue Bells School and Manav Sthali School respectively whereas Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan & Modern School, Vasant Vihar were the winners of „Brandstorm - Marketing creativity‟ and „Ad Acting‟ games. „Declamation‟ activity was won by our school. The Rolling Trophy was lifted by St.Columba‟s School, Ashok Place, New Delhi who emerged as the overall winner. Many eminent personalities in the field of economics were the judges and guest speakers. ENVIRONMENT CLUB As a part of Delhi Government‟s Project „Y‟, environmentalists from Swechcha took our environment club students to banks of the river „Yamuna‟ and showed a documentary film to them educating about the need to save the holy river from getting polluted. Arjun Soin was selected as the Tetrapack Ambassador from Delhi as a part of Project SEARCH by TERI and was sent for sponsored field trip in January 2012 to Vapi, Gujarat. He visited the Tetra Recycling Plant, attended workshops and participated in interactive sessions on importance of recycling of waste. Follow up workshop was done with other students in July 2012 to re-emphasize on the importance of tetrapack waste management. Walk for Water – In March 2012, 45 students of Environment Club along with the teacher in-charge, participated in campaign „Save Water Share Water‟ organized by various NGOs, UNICEF, Delhi Jal Board & Delhi Govt. Students walked around Lodi Garden and became a part of the Blue Campaign to minimize wastage of water by adopting the „5Rs‟ Reduce, Reuse, Recharge, Recycle and Respect water. Earth Hour - On 31st March 2012, our Environment Club supported the Earth Hour proposed by WWF. Students carried out a Signature Campaign, made posters and lists of „dos‟ & „don‟ts‟ to create awareness about importance of energy conservation. They also used social networking sites to appeal for supporting Earth Hour to their friends & relatives. Environment Summit at American School, New Delhi – In April 2012, environment club students with teacher in-charge participated in the Environment Summit organized by American School to seek solutions for dealing with issue of „plastic waste‟. Scientists like Marcus Eriksen, Lindsey Jura, Jordan Howard from the „5 GYRES‟ narrated facts and trained them to become future warriors to solve the problem of plastic disposal which is a threat to land and water bodies.
Earth Day 2012 - To mark Earth Day, Environment Club of our school organized various activities from 13thto 25th April 2012 in order to develop environment-conscious mentality and as a reminder to save Mother Earth. a) „A wall‟ was put outside the Shankar Lal Hall and students were asked to write slogans related to environment on it. The best slogan was awarded. b) „Best from tetra pack waste' - Creativity was put to a test and students undertook a truly difficult task of creating something using waste materials. Marvelous models were created like Buddha under the Banyan tree, the Taj Mahal, Arctic sea shore with endangered species. c) 'Battigul', an upcoming group of environmentalists under the guidance Swechha (NGO) organized 'The Green Horns' festival at our school to further raise awareness. d) An inter-house quiz on enviornment related issues was organized. Tagore House emerged as the winner whereas Shastri House and Nehru House claimed the second & third prizes respectively. e) An informative documentary film was shown to Middle School students followed by an interactive session by officials from „Battigul‟ and Center of Science and Environment. f) Our budding student environmentalists attended the earth day celebrations at TERI and witnessed a presentation by Mr.Robert Swan, a reputed polar explorer and environmental leader. g) On 23rd, a Green Career Counseling session was held where everybody was made aware of all the upcoming possible green jobs one can do that can help save the environment and mint heaps of money. i) A chart was put up for „Green Imprints‟. Students were required to put a green thumbprint on the chart, each, hence making tree, symbolic of our endeavour to a sustainable lifestyle. j) Our campaign ended with a performance by our School Band and a Skit put up by our student environmentalists to remind everyone that water is a precious and scarce gift given by God and every drop of it should be saved. Eco Slate Programme - A group of 13 students (S7) of Environment Club have enrolled for „Eco Slate Programme‟ being conducted by I‟Dreams in collaboration with IIM, Ahmedabad, after school hours in school premises. The programme includes eight informative sessions on the topics – i) Introduction to Sustainability ii) Climate Change and Impacts iii) Carbon Footprint – How to build your own Carbon Calculator iv) Introduction to Energy and Electricity v) Energy Audit – Inventorying vi) How to do Energy Audit of School vii) Minimization Plan viii) Report presentation and concluding discussion. As a part of the programme, each student is expected to individually do one project of „carbon footprints‟ at home. Each student is also expected to be a part of a group project on „energy auditing‟ in school. On successful completion of the programme, these students will be awarded a certificate of diploma in environment care by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Green Olympiad – Thirty six students undertook Green Olympiad test conducted by TERI in August 2012. In September 2012, a „Short Film-Making‟ competition on „How to Protect Antarctica‟ and „How to Make Tetrapack Recycling Fun‟ was organized by TERI as a part of Project SEARCH. Vidisha Aggarwal (S6) won the second prize for her film „Arresting the Big Thaw‟ and she was felicitated as an Ambassador by a renowned explorer, Robert Swan, in Pune and attended various events & workshops. Experiential Learning in Environment Students of classes S1 to S3 attended „Breakeven‟ workshops in school conducted by Swechcha (NGO) in September 2012 to sensitize them about garbage disposal. They were later taken for a field trip to Bhalsava garbage dump to see the reality. A unique educational trip to Bodh Gaon (Alwar) was organized from 30th th September to 4 October 2012 for students of class S4 on a journey of exploration, reflection and action into rural India. „Yamuna Yatra‟ is another experiential trip that will be organized for students of classes S5 & S6. They will be shown the origin point of the „Yamuna‟ with crystal clear water and later polluted state of the river in plains. FASHION TECHNOLOGY CLUB During the year, workshops and talks by experts were held for students pursuing Fashion Technology in senior school. They were also taken to the Crafts Museum and to a Footwear Design & Development Institute in NOIDA. GRAPHICS CLUB Members of newly formed Graphics Club put up an exhibition in school show- casing their art of graphic prints and the work done by them. HERITAGE CLUB ‘DAROHAR’ Our students participated in a short film making competition on the topic „Our Heritage‟ organized by INTACH in November 2012. Shantanu Bhatia (S5) and Himanya Sud (S4) shared the first prize for their films made by them individually. INTERACT CLUB In December 2011, the club distributed food, jackets and blankets to to share happiness with them on the occasion of Christmas.
the street children
A group of twenty five students participated in the Terry Fox Run organized by Vasant Valley School on in January 2012. Interact Club also donated a sum of Rs.50,000/collected from students to the Cancer Research Institute In April 2012, Akshat Arora (S7) won a bronze medal at the National Level for his voluntary community service by the Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards. In months of April and May 2012, members of our Interact Club visited the NGOs – Ozanam Home, Cheshire Home, Can Kids, Mobile Creches and Action for Autism for giving
orientation. They also donated money collected by our school from “‟Change‟ for Change” progarmme to Ozanam Home and Cheshire Home. Our Interact Club members are also actively involved in the voluntary work for various other NGOs viz. Goonj, Polio Plus Programme, Helpage India, India Vision Foundation etc. On 30th June 2012, Rotary International District 3010 organized an event „Shukriya‟ to applaud the dedicated services of the Rotarians. During this function, our Interact Club members were honoured. Meher Tandon was given the title „District Interact Representative‟ and Akshat Arora was awarded the titles „Zonal Interact Representative‟ and „Best Interactor‟ (Male) for his dedication to the cause of the Rotary. Interact Club annually organizes a symposium on any social issue. This year the Club had its symposium on the theme „Help and Educate about Autism Related Tribulations‟ (H.E.A.R.T.) on 4th August 2012. Numerous activities viz. Panel Discussion, Poster Making Competition, Power Point Presentation, Essay Competition, One Act Play and Extempore were be held centered around the topic which will motivate them to play an active role in the society. More than fifteen reputed schools of Delhi and NCR are expected to participate in the event. Mr.R.P.S.Rudy, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), has consented to the Chief Guest. Dr.Sameer Parekh, a celebrated psychiatrist and Ms.Merry Baruah from Action for Autism (NGO) addressed the audience on the theme. Riyan Baig and Sadhika Sasiprabhu have recently been selected as the Interact Representatives (ZIRs) for the year 2012-2013.
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‘ILLUMINATI’, THE PHYSICS CLUB Physics Club students from classes S4 to S7 attended workshops on „Optics Education Outreach Programme‟ conducted by Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers in August 2012. INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, INDIA (DUKE OF AWARD)
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To complete adventure activities for „silver‟ and „bronze‟ level awards of the I.A.Y.P., our students went for the following trips: Dates/Duration 14th to 19th Jan. 2012
Name of the Place Camp „Utsaah‟ at Ranichauri, Uttarakhand for Survival Leadership Programme
15th to 2012
Camp Peach Valley at Rajgarh for Adventure with a Purpose Programme
18th
March
Class & No. of Students Thirty nine students of class S5 & S6 escorted by Mr.Naresh Sachdeva, Mr.R.K.Upadhyay and Ms.Priyanka Sisodia Twenty two students of classes S3, S4, S5 & S6 alongwith Mrs.Baisakhi Samajdar and Mr.Arindam Dasgupta
Twenty four students of our school have qualified to receive the „Gold‟ Award for the I.A.Y.P. KIDS FOR TIGERS PROJECT
A slide show and a video clip on „saving tigers and environment‟ were shown to the students of Middle School during assembly on in December 2011. It was
followed by a talk by an environmentalist from K.F.T. laying emphasis on the need to conserve both. As a follow up of this, 200 post cards and two big cloth banners will be sent to the Minister for Environment with messages showing concern by our students on the subject. On 9th December 2011, five students of Middle School will be taken for a nature trail to Aravali Biodiversity Park and two of them will participate in the quiz to be held there. From 28th March to 2nd April 2012, twenty one students from Middle School escorted by teachers - Mrs.Deepika Parashar, Mrs.Harleen Chadha and wildlife Conservationist Bharat Goel, Ankit and Prayas, visited „Todoba – Andhari Tiger Reserve‟, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra. During this educational trip, every day they went for jungle-safari where they closely observed the wildlife. It was a sensitizing trip and the experience touched hearts of everyone. On 15th April 2012, seventy five students of Middle School attended „Tiger Festival‟ held at Shri Ram School, Gurgaon. They participated in various competitions – skit, music, fashion show, photography etc. Seventy students from Middle School participated in a live programme held by NDTV at National Museum of Natural Sciences on 15th July 2012. Our students participated in workshops and shared slogans, poems and their experience at „Tadoba‟ with everyone. Mr.Bittu Sahgal, Editor of Sanctuary Asia and a renowned environmentalist, addressed our students to sensitize them to save „Mother Earth‟ in July 2012. Our school participated in the „Save our Tigers Campaign‟ organized by Tigers in September 2012.
Kids for
‘MODEL UNITED NATIONS’ SOCIETY Under the guidance of Mrs.Usha Nair, Club In-charge, over one hundred students get trained regularly for participation in the Model United Nations Conferences by the senior students after school hours in a formal manner. Our students have been enthusiastically participating in the Model United Nations Conferences (MUNs) organized by several school/institution within India and abroad. Their performances have been bringing laurels to school. The following details support our statements: Dates Nov. 2011
26-29
Names of the Event/ Organizers Amity MUN organized by Amity School, Saket
Model
United
Nations
Names of the Students with their Roles Pranav Sahni Amogha Rao, Prabhmeher Nanda, Naman Gupta
Result/Position
Ajay Sabharwal, Madhav Bhushan, Arkaj Kumar
HighCommendation (individually)
Rhea Grover
Special Mention
Modern School, Barakhamba Road got the ‘Best Delegation’ Award Council of Pompey, Ivory
Best Delegate (individually)
Jan. 2012
Conference organized by the Harvard University, Boston
Coast Pranay Lekhi Ajay Sabharwal, Prabhmeher Nanda, Gaurang, Samarth Luthra, Naman Gupta, Pranav Sahni, Ashita Alag, Aastha Gupta and Sadhika Sasiprabhu
17 – 19 March 2012
31Mar.1 April 2012
St.Stephen‟s Model United Nations Conference organized by St.Stephen‟s Planning Fourm
„NSIT Model United Nations Conference‟ organized by Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology
MUN Reform Council (non competitive) Ajay Sabharwal All India Congress Committee, 1964 S.K.Partil – Gagandeep Singh Arneja Guljari Lal Nanda– Naman Gupta
„ZESTE Model United Nations‟ organized by Ryan International School, Mayur Vihar
Participation
Participation
Special Mention Special Mention
Organization of American States Pranav Sahni -Cuba
Special Mention
Security Council Ajay Sabharwal– France PrabhmeherNanda- USA Shivish Soni - China Arkaj Kumar - Canada
High Commendation High Commendation Special Mention Participation
League Arab States Siddhant Bajaj - Sudan Pranav Sahni - China Naman Gupta – Iraq
Participation Participation Participation
Futuristic General Assembly 2020 Gagandeep Singh Arneja - U.K 9 – 11 April 2012
Special Mention
Participation
Conference of Disarmament Amogha Rao – Israel Twinkle Jain – Kuwait
Participation Participation
United Nations Development Programme Arudhra Rao – Israel Adhiraj Bali – Kuwait
Participation Participation
United Nations Emergency Salvation Committee Gagandeep Singh Arneja- Special Mention Israel Naman Gupta–Kuwait Special Mention Shivish Soni–Vice Participation Chairman
26 – 27 April 2012
„Ryan International School Model United Nations‟ organized by Ryan International School
U.N.General Assembly DISEC Shivish Soni-Chairman Siddhant Bajaj – Spain Satya Paul SabharwalSpain Shantanu Bhatia-Republic of Korea
Participation Best Delegate Participation Participation
International MonetaryFund Rhea Grover – Spain Participation Dushyant Kaul - Syria Participation Pranav Sahni - Republic of Best Delegate Korea World Health Organization SarthakGupta–Republic Participation of Korea Saanya Sareen - Spain Participation 2–3 May 2012
„Armistice Model United Nations‟ organized by Ryan International School
Country-Russian Federation
Best Delegation
U.N.General Assembly-1 Arjun Soin
Participation
U.N.General Assembly-2 Amogha Rao
Best Delegate
U.N.General Assembly–3 Shivish Soni-Chairman Naman Gupta
Best Chairman Best Delegate
Economic & Social Council Madhav Bhushan High Commendation United Nations Security Council Gagandeep Singh Arneja Best ViceVice Chairman Chairman 16 – 18 May 2012
La Martiniere Calcutta „Model United Nations Conference‟ organized by La Martiniere Boys& Girls School, Calcutta
General Assembly Aastha Gupta - China Participation Devyani Aggarwal – Qatar Participation Sohan Aggarwal – Kenya Participation Historical Security Council Prabhmeher Nanda & Best Delegation Rhea Grover – Russian Federation League of Arab States Shivish Soni & Amogha Rao - Israel Five Families of New York Pranav Sahni –
Special Mention
HighCommendation
Joseph Profaci Pakistani All Parties Conference Ajay Sabharwal – Special Mention Nawaz Sharif, PML-N, Leader of Opposition Naman Gupta–Imran Khan Participation PTI 5–7 Aug. 2012
SLMUN-2012 organized bySri Lanka Model United Nations Society,Colombo
Egypt, League of Arab States Satya Sabharwal & Soham Special Mention Aggarwal Egypt and South Sudan Arjun Soin, Arudhra Rao, Participation Adhiraj Bali, Dushant Kaul Gauri Khanna, Satya Paul Sabharwal, Saanya Askari, Sanya Sareen, Twinkle Jain, Sohan Aggarwal & Twinkle Jain
18 – 20 August 2012
CMUN-2012 organized by organized by Cathedral & John Cannon School, Mumbai
Minister of War in the Nazi Cabinet, 1939-1945 Ajay Sabharwal
Best Delegate
USA in the Special Summit on South China Sea Shivish Soni & Siddhant Best Delegate Bajaj USA in the World Trade Organization Madhav Bhushan USA in the General Assembly (DISEC) Amogha Rao & Satya Sabharwal
Best Delegate
HighCommendation
USA in the General Assembly (LEGAL) Naman Rungta
HighCommendation
USA in the Economic and Social Council Anant Jain
Special Mention
USA in the Historic Security Council Arkaj Kumar and Prabh Meher Nanda USA in the General Assembly (SPECPOL)
Special Mention
Sarthak Gupta
August 2012
ACMUN-2012 organized by the Aitchison College MUN Society, Lahore, Pakistan
Modern School won the Best Delegation Award out of 50 schools from all across the world International Criminal Court Gagandep Singh Arneja Best Delegate Security Council Naman Gupta General Assembly Satya Sabharwal Pakistan National Assembly, Raja Parvez Amogha Rao International Atomic Energy Agency Arudhra Rao Human Rights Council Aakash Bhalothia
October 2012
DAVMUN organized by DAV Public School, Gurgaon
Participation
High Commendation High Commendation High Commendation
High Commendation High Commendation
International Criminal Court Aditya Singh
Participation
SPECPOL Sahil Bhargava
Participation
Security Council Prabhmeher Nanda
Best Delegate
Human Rights Council Shivish Soni
Best Delegate
UNEP Rhea Grover
Best Delegate
ECOSOC Amogha Rao
Best Delegate
General Assembly Satya Sabharwal and Arudhra Rao PBC Aakash Bhalothia Commission on Narcotic
Special Mention
Special Mention
Drugs Soham Aggarwal ICJ Arkaj Kumar, Anant Jain & Gagandeep S.Arneja
Participation Participation
Modern School won the Best Delegation Award Representing United States of America October 2012
SMUN-2012 organized by Model United Nations Society of Sanskriti School, New Delhi
JCC : Pakistani Cabinet, 1971 : General Niazi Naman Gupta Best Delegate Germany in the HRC Aditya Singh Germany in the LEGAL Dushyant Kaul
High Commendation Special Mention
Germany & Iraq Adhiraj Bali, Gauri Khanna Participation Sanya Askari, Sahil Bhargava
„MOD-MUN 2012‟ was organized by our school from 20th to 22nd October 2012. Over 50 reputed schools from India and abroad participated in the conference. Mr.M.Pallam Raju (then Hon‟ble Raksha Rajya Mantri), presently Hon‟ble Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Govt. of India, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and addressed the delegates to set the tone of the conference. MOD-MUN simulated over seven committees. NATURE CLUB The Nature Club celebrated „Earth Week‟ in April 2012 by planting trees in school. PROJECT CITIZEN CLUB Every year, the Project Citizen Club of our school undertake a project on a matter of civil concern to promote pro-active citizenship among young students. This year‟s project was on „Underage Drinking and Smoking‟ for which the students researched, attempted to formulate a public policy and recommend the same to the government to take action. Our school has, for the third consecutive year, won the „Outstanding Project Award‟ during a function held in Ramjas School, R.K.Puram, New Delhi in November 2012. PAPER TECHNOLOGY Our Paper Technology Department conducted a workshop for almost hundred students and fifteen teachers of American Embassy School from 23rd to 27th April 2012. Every day, a different group of twenty students and three teachers attended our workshop and the activities taught included pulp making, recycled paper making, marbling, origami, quelling etc.
During summer vacation, a workshop on paper technology and calligraphy was held from 14th May to 1st June 2012. Thirteen students across classes attended the same learnt paper making, marbling, starching, origami, quelling etc. They also made products like picture frames, pencil holder, chit box, file cover, paper tray, paper bag, jewellery box, paper weight, spiral writing pads, designer envelopes etc. from recycled paper. An exhibition of all products was put up at the end of the workshop for parents. PAINTING CLUB Ridhima Mukim won the third prize in a philately painting competition organized by the Postal Department of India in November 2011. Our students participated in the painting and sculpture competition held by Modern School, Vasant Vihar in December 2011. Vanshaj Chauhan (S3) won the first prize and Gayatri Kathuria got the second prize. Siddhant Bajaj was given a consolation prize. Our students took part in the art competition conducted by Ambience Public School in July 2012. Tanya Wadhwa & Prachi Jain won the first prize in „Best out of Waste‟ event. Samira Chauhan & Vidhisha Aggarwal got the third prize in „Collage Making‟ competition while Sejal Khanna & Puja Chopra received the third prize in „Movie Presentation. Raunak Singh Rana (S2) won the second prize in a painting competition organized by Delhi Public School, Mathura Road on 8th August 2012. PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB Radhika Dewan (S5) won the second prize in an inter school photography competition conducted by R.D.Rajpal School. QUIZ CLUB Siddharth Seth and Asees Bhasin participated in a quiz competition, which was a part of the „International Life Skills and Health Summit 2012‟ organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education at Indian Islamic Centre on 22nd April 2012. Our school‟s team received the first prize and books for both the team members. Aahaan Sakhuja (S6) and Anurag Bagga (S6) won the first and the second prize in a quiz on „genetics‟ conducted by the XV Genetics Congress Trust, as a part of their Orientation Programme on „Genetics & Biodiversity‟ on 8th May 2012 Our team of students from Middle School - Mehar Haleem, Aatmik Gupta, Aryaman Sud and Dhruv Dhohatti secured the first position and won the junior category of MODQUIZ organized by Modern School, Vasant Vihar on 21st July 2012. Hasaan Ejaz, Apratim Chandra Singh, Pranav Sahni and Pranay Lekhi represented our school as a team in the senior category in MODQUIZ and reached till the semi-finals beating 200 teams. Aditya Singh & Ayman Zaheer won second prize in the literary quiz conducted by Gyan Bharati School, Saket on 18th August 2012. The Quiz Club of our school aims to promote general knowledge and awareness amongst
students and organized its annual inter school quiz contest th th „Unquestionably Modern‟ on 9 & 10 October 2012, in which over 700 students from over 40 schools participated. The event had senior and junior categories and the contest for „Kamla Bose Memorial Trophy‟ was an academic triathlon (comprising of two rounds of quizzing and one round of extempore) open to only Modern Schools. The event was conducted by Mr.Pranab Mukherjee, renowned quiz master. Our school was the winner of the junior quiz and the runners up in the senior quiz. Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan was the winner of senior quiz. The „Kamla Bose Memorial Trophy‟ was also lifted by Modern School, Barakhamba Road. SPIC MACAY Our senior school students Anandita Rana, Ipshita Sharma, Garima Gupta, Vedant Kapoor, Shubham Bose, Devika Chopra, Bhavni Arora, Falguni Abichandani, Aali Khanna & Soumya Gupta participated in the SPIC MACAY‟s National School Intensive held from 24th to 31st December 2011 at Delhi Public School, Pune. The event provided more than a peek into Indian‟s rich cultural tapestry with concerts, intensive talks, movies, yoga sessions etc. A „Heritage Walk‟ to „Ghalib Ki Haveli‟ was organized on 11th February 2012 for forty students of class S5 of our school by Ms.Swapna Liddle, a known Historian, from SPIC MACAY. To mark World Dance Day, Mrs.Rama Vaidyanathan, a celebrated Bharatnatyam dancer was invited to present a lec-dem to our students during assembly on 27th April 2012. Mrs.Leela Venkatraman, a dance critic, was the Chief Guest on the occasion. The gurus interacted with our students the riveting dance performance was relished by everyone. A workshop on „Madhubani‟ painting was organized from 1st to 4th May 2012 in school. Thirty eight students from classes S1 to S4 learnt the art by the artists - Mrs.Pushpa Devi and Mr.Anirudh Kumar. Two students of our school attended the SPIC MACAY‟s Gurukul Anubhav Scholarship programme in June 2012 at Chinmaya Vibhuti Ashram, Kalvan, Pune. Sonakshi Chhabra (S3) learnt „Dhrupad‟, an ancient form of Hindustani classical vocal music by Ustad Fariduddin Dagar and Ishita Gupta (S5) learnt „Kathak‟ by Pandit Birju Maharaj Ji. TRIPS/TOURS CLUB During the year, the Trips and Tours Club organized well planned outdoor educational trip to Pondicherry, Chennai and Bhopal. Various adventure camps were also organized for students to places like Jim Corbett National Park, Ram Nagar, Ranikhet, Mussoorie. Rock Climbing & Rappling, River Crossing, Flying Fox, Trekking, Obstacle Course & Demonstration Based Lectures on Outdoor Survival were the highlights of these adventure camps. WRITERS’ GUILD Writers‟ Guild is a recent initiative of the school with a small group of over 25 students where creative writing drills were experimented with them and later, through workshops, the pieces of their own writings were critiqued by the rest of the members of the group. This exercise culminated with 17 finished pieces of creative writing that has been culminated in the form of an anthology.
‘KAMLA BOSE AWARD’ FOR LEARNING BEYOND CLASSROOMS Five projects were received by Mrs.Sanjana Mulla, the teacher in-charge of Kamla Bose Awards. The team comprising of Lavanya Bahl, Vishrut Malhotra and Uday Mudgal won the award for their project titled „Mankind a Marvel‟. ‘SARDAR BHAGWANT SINGH AWARD’ FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH Eleven projects were received by the teacher in-charge Mrs.Bina Ramanujan. The first prize was won by the project titled „Forensic ScienceFire Investigation‟ made by Anandita Wahal and Ananya Sachdev. The project titled „Hyper-Viruses‟ made by Konishjit S.Bedi, Ashwyn Singh Chadha, Raghav Bhalla and Siddharth Aggarwal, got the second prize. The third prize was received by the project titled „Will India Become the Education Hub of the World by 2020‟ made by Samika Wadhwa, Navya Malik and Vatsala Bhatt.
‘VINOD DIXIT AWARDS’ An award function was held on 1st August 2012. Mrs.Sheila Dikshit, Hon‟ble Chief Minister of Delhi & Mr.Sandeep Dikshit, Hon‟ble Member of Parliament, gave away prizes to the winners of the Vinod Dikshit Award Winning Projects for the years 2010 & 2011. Under guidance of Mrs.Sanjana Mulla, Teacher In-charge of the Vinod Dikshit Awards, over forty projects were submitted to the Vinod Dikshit Foundation. The below mentioned six projects from our school were finally selected by the foundation for award for the year 2012: S.No. 1.
Name of the Project Misleading Advertisement
Name & Class of the Student who worked on it Shivika Khanna, Gurbani Sethi, Ishita Gupta, Soham Aggarwal – Class S5
2.
Delhi Police
Aakash Bhalothia, Aashish Goyal, Arjun Abbey, Shivansh Khanna – Class S5
3.
Organ Transplantation
Karan Kumar, Sidharth Agarwal, Ishan Chhabra, Ishjot Suri – Class S6
4.
Yamuna River
Aarushi Prasad, Smriddhi Gupta – Class S4
7.
5.
Educating the Educated
Nehmat Mongia, Aditya Shukla, Pushaan Nayar, Salil Singh Aggarwal, Uday Bajaj – Class S5
6.
Space Settlement
Divam Gupta, Yatin Gupta, Bhrigu Kapoor, Siddhant Dalmia, Anurag Bagga – Class S6
INTRA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Middle School conducted various competitions viz. classroom board decoration, skit, extempore (Hindi), general knowledge quiz etc. and activities like mock drills on „earthquake safety‟ and „safety after disaster in general‟ for its students during the year. The festival of „Lohri‟ was celebrated at the Principal‟s residence on 12th January 2012. The holy fire was lit and students of Middle school performed Punjabi folk dances. The boarders of the school hostel also joined the celebrations. School bid farewell to students of class S7 (batch of 2012) on 19th January 2012. A Leadership Camp for over hundred „on-duty‟ students of S6 was organized in school on 15th and 16th April 2012 for selection of „Senior „Prefects‟ for the session 2012-2013. The leadership skills of the participants were assessed through various activities such as adventure, leadership games, extempore, creative session, dressing up of the boards etc. Over eighty students were selected as „Senior Prefects‟ on basis of their performance in the camp followed by an interview with a team of teachers. In association with „Scholastic India Pvt.Ltd., our library department organized a „Book Week‟ in school from 16th to 21st April 2012. Justice Leila Seth and Dr.Ashok Vajperi, Chairman, Lalit Kala Academy, were the Guests of Honour at the inaugural function. Workshops on Story Telling & Cartooning were conducted by Ms.Paro Anand and Mr.Ajit Narayan respectively. However, workshops on Poetry Writing and „Getting Back to Reading & Value Sharing‟ were conducted by Ms.Nupur Awasthi and Ms.Udita Chopra respectively. Students of class S2 were also taken to the American Centre. Leadership skills of over fifty „on duty‟ students of S3 were tested from April to August 2012 through tasks given to them such as decoration of S1 classrooms, taking care of S1 students, extempore, group discussion, interview with the Head Mistress etc. Badges were given to the selected „Junior Prefects‟ during a special assembly in August 2012. The school celebrated the Teachers‟ Day 5th September 2012.
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CO-CURRICULAR & INTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Hasaan Ejaz (Drums), Sahil Vashishta (Keyboard), Raghav Dutt (Bass Guitar), Arjun Monga (Guitar - Rhythm), Reuben Datta (Guitar – Lead) and Shivish Soni, Yashna Kaul, Ramita Chatterjee vocally represented our school band. They won the „Best Band‟ prize in an interschool band competition held at British School in December 2011. Our students participated in a band competition - „Battle of Bands‟, organized by
Woodstock School, Mussoorie in March 2012. They won the „Best Band‟ award with a cash prize of Rs.10,000/-. Raghav Dutt got the „Best Bassist‟ award and a cash prize of Rs.2,000/-. They took part in a band competition organized by I.I.P.M. Cicero‟s School of Rock in May 2012. We won the „Best Band‟ award with a cash prize of Rs.5,000/- alongwith an acoustic guitar. A group of nine students - Paarth Gupta, Dhananjay, Tanmaye Soni, Divya Aggarwal, Kavya Mehndiratta, Prateek Kher, Gayatri Dhiman, Nitya Garg and Ambika Pandey participated in an interschool French Song Competition organized by the Ahlcon Public School, Mayur Vihar in July 2012. Our students won the third prize in the competition. In August 2012, Shivish Soni won the first prize in the solo singing category in a western music competition held at St.Thomas School, New Delhi. Shivish Soni is also the winner of the „Best Vocalist (Male)‟ award in the western music competition organized by Don Bosco School, New Delhi in September 2012. Shivish received the second prize in solo singing category at the western music competition conducted by Sanskriti School, New Delhi in September 2012. 9.
GRADUATION CEREMONY Graduation Ceremony for students of Class S7 (batch of 2012) was held on 17th January 2012. It was attended in large numbers by parents and grand parents. The Graduation Day address was delivered by Dr.Syeda Hameed, an exemplary Modernite and presently a Member of the Planning Commission, Government of India.
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EXPLORATION OF NAV-RASA In order to explore and understand the essence of „Nav-Ras‟, the school attempted to interpret it through poetry, song and dance. The theme was well researched and the show was presented by our students on 28 th April 2012 at the Amphitheatre of our school. Mrs.Sheila Dikshit, Hon‟ble Chief Minister of Delhi, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Pandit Birju Maharaj, Padma Vibhushan Awardee, a renowned Kathak dancer and a dance veteran, was the Guest of Honour.
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INDEPENDENCE DAY Our school celebrated the 65th Independence Day of our country on 14th August 2012. Mr.Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest. Flag hoisting and Chief Guest‟s Address to the students, talks in English & Hindi, roopak titled „Jinhain Naaz Hai Hind Par Who Kahaan Hain?‟ and performance by the school choir were the highlights of the celebration.
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BLOOD DONATION CAMP The Interact Club, in association with Rotary Club of Delhi „Rendezvous‟ and the Rotary Blood Bank, organized the 31st Annual Blood Donation Camp on 13th October 2012. Dr.Kiran Walia, Hon‟ble Minister of State for Education, Social Welfare, Women & Child Development, Languages, was the Chief Guest and inaugurated the camp.
The camp was a huge success collecting over 250 units of blood. An excellent ikebana exhibition was put up by our students at the camp. 13.
92ND FOUNDER’S DAY (1ST PART) The 1st Part of the school‟s 92nd Founder‟s Day was celebrated on 31 st October 2012. The highlights of the celebrations were elaborated exhibitions on i) „Art & Craft‟ on the theme „Mosaic‟ by the departments of Paper Technology, Woodcraft, Sculpture ii) „Robotics & Electronics‟ by eight Houses – Akbar (Writing Robot), Ashoka (Security Alarm System), Azad (Automatic Toll Tax Payment), Gandhi (Voice Controller Car), Lajpat (SMS based Voting Machine), Laxmibai (SMS based Device Controller & Mobile Sniffer), Nehru (Automatic Energy Saver), Pratap (Robotic Arm in Action) iii) Fashion Technology iv) Home Science v) Paintings vii) Eye for „I” Space – 20 master pieces displayed by 20 students showcasing their talents in different areas like photography, sketching, origami, m-seal art, quilling art etc. The celebrations also included a western music ensemble and an experimental theatre titled „Andha Yug‟. Dr.Ashok Vajpeyi, an eminent poet & author and former Chairman, Lalit Kala Academy, was the Chief Guest on the occasion.
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HOUSE FUNCTIONS Ranjeet, Shivaji, Subhash, Tilak and Tagore Houses have celebrated their biennial functions and Shastri and Patel Houses will hold their function in November/December 2012. All the House Masters deserve appreciation.
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GAMES & SPORTS ANNUAL SPORTS DAY The Annual Sports Day of our school was celebrated on 3rd December 2011. Mr.Ajay Maken, Hon‟ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India, consented to be the Chief Guest, but due to some unavoidable reasons, Mrs.Maken graced the occasion in his place. Mr.Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools presided over the function. Over hundred national level players of our school, who have represented Delhi State in various disciplines and those who have got positions at the „National‟ level, received the award from the Chief Guest. The event
also witnessed the March Past by students of classes S5 and S6 representing the fifteen Houses of the school. Students of classes S1, S2, S3 and S4 performed Yoga, Rainbow Drill, Taekwondo & Drill respectively. An inter-house Athletics Meet was also a part of the Sports Day. SUMMER SPORTS CAMP A summer camp in sports was held for our students from 14th May to 1st June 2012 in the disciplines of Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Chess, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Lawn Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis and Volleyball. Over 250 students attended the camp. The summer camp for Swimming, however, continued till 15th June 2012. XXXVI LALA RAGHUBIR SINGH HOT WEATHER CRICKET TOURNAMENT „XXXVI Lala Raghubir Singh Hot Weather Cricket Tournament‟ was held in School from 30th May to 12th June 2012, in which twelve prestigious teams of North India competed. Mr.Ashok Pratap Singh, President, Board of Trustees, Modern Schools, inaugurated the tournament and the Closing Ceremony was graced by Mr.Arvinder Singh Lovely, the then Hon‟ble Minister of Education, Transport, Languages. Inter-house matches are organized regularly in senior and junior sections to provide opportunity to all students for playing games of their choice. The achievements of various sports persons in their respective sports are as follows: ATHLETICS Date/ Month 20-30 March 2012
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp New Delhi YMCA Delhi State Invitational Athletics Championship
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players U-14 Sonakshi Chhabra–Third (Long Jump) U-15 Karamaditya Bagga – Third (Shotput) U-18 Akshat Kejriwal – Third (Javelin)
26-28 July 2012
72nd Delhi State Annual Athletics Championship held at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
U-18 – Shahrukh Azad – 100m – Gold - 200m – Gold U-18–Karamaditya Bagga–Shotput–Bronze
BADMINTON Date/ Month 1–4 Nov. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp Rajiv Gandhi National Gold Cup Tournament held at Ludlo Castle
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Girls U-16 -Ananya Nagar won the „Gold Medal‟ with cash prize of Rs.31,000/-Gauri Asija won the „Silver Medal‟ with cash prize of Rs.21,000/-
12-22 Dec. 2011
Inter Zonal Badminton Championship held at Ludlo Castle School, Delhi
Girls U-19 – Winners Girls U-17 – Winners Girls U-14 – Third position Boys U-17 – Runners Up
22-29 Dec. 2011
Delhi State Championship held at Punjabi Bagh Club, New Delhi
Gauri Asija – Winner – U-17 & U-19 Ananya Nagar–Runners Up - U-17 & U-19
9-13 Jan. 2012
57th National School Games Badminton Championship held at Pune
7–9 May 2012
Manav Rachnarachna Girls - U-17 – Gold - Noor Chhatwal, Badminton Championship held Mehika Jhallani, Ridhi Kapoor, Safa at Manavrachna School, Rahim Faridabad Girls - U-14 – Gold – Bhavya Rishi, Ananya Goel, Shivika Sharma, Twinkle Kumar
Ananya Nagar – U-19 – Runners Up Gauri Asija - U-19 – Runners Up
Boys – U-17 – Bronze – Shiven Vikram Bhatia, Shekhar Aggarwal, Arjun Chopra, Aditya Khurana Boys – U-13 – Silver – Naman Bhargava, Ananya Khemka, Vikram Singh, Shiv Narain Puri 25 – 28 May 2012
Delhi State Badminton Girls – U -17 - Silver – Noor Chhatwal Championship held at Thyagraj Stadium Girls - U – 15 – Silver – Bhavya Rishi
7 July 2012
Open Delhi State Badminton Championship held at Ludlo Castle school
Girls U-15 – Silver
Inter School Badminton Championship held at Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar
Boys U-19 – Silver Shiven Vikram Bhatia, Akshay, Shantanu Sharma
22 – 24 July 2012
Girls U-15 (Doubles) – Gold Bhavya Rishi received the „Most Promising Player of the Tournament‟ award
Boys U-17 – Bronze Sahaj Minhas, Aditya Chopra, Shiv Puri
Khurana,
Arjun
Boys U-14 – Bronze Naman Bhargava, Ananmay Khemka Girls U-19 – Gold Rishika Gulati, Tanima Chhatwal
Narang,
Noor
Girls U-17 – Gold Ridhi Kapoor, Mihika Jhallani, Shivika Vikram Bhatia, Safa Rahim Girls U-14 – Bronze Ananya Goel, Shivika Sharma, Bhavya Rishi August 2012
Asian Badminton Championship held in Tokyo, Japan
Girls U-14 - Bhavya Rishi represented Delhi State in the Asian Badminton Championship
28 Aug4 Sept. 2012
Inter School Badminton Championship held at Lady Irwin School, New Delhi
Boys U-19 – Gold Shiven V. Bhatia, Shantanu Sharma, Akshay Yadwendra, Akshaya Boys U-17 – Gold Aditya Khurana, Arjun Chopra, Shiv Puri Boys U-14 – Bronze Naman Bhargava, Ananmay Khemka Girls U-19 – Gold Noor Chhatwal, Tanima Narang, Ananya Nagar Girls U-17 – Gold Ridhi Kapoor, Mihika Jhallani, Safa Rahim Girls U-14 – Gold Bhavya Rishi, Ananya Sharma,
6 – 10 Oct. 2012
I.P.S.C. Badminton Championship held at
Goel,
Shivika
Team Events Boys U-19 – Gold Shikhar Sharma, Shiven V. Bhatia, Akshay Yadwendra,Shantanu Sharma Boys U-17 – Silver Sahaj Minhas, Aditya Chopra, Shiv Puri
Khurana,
Boys U-14 – Bronze Naman Bhargava, Ananmay Vikram Singh, Yash Rohilla
Arjun
Khemka,
Girls U-19 – Gold Noor Chhatwal, Ananya Nagar, Tanima Narang, Udita Bansal Girls U-17 – Gold Ridhi Kapoor, Mihika Rahim, Shivika V. Bhatia
Jhallani,
Girls U-14 – Gold Bhavya Rishi, Ananya Sharma, Twinkle Kumar
Goel,
Safa
Shivika
Individual Events Boys U-19 - Shikhar Sharma – Bronze Boys U-17 – Sahaj Minhas – Gold Boys U-14 – Naman Bhargava-Bronze Girls U-19 – Noor Chhatwal – Gold - Ananya Nagar- Silver
Girls U-17 – Mihika Jhallani - Gold - Ridhi Kapoor - Silver Girls U-14 – Bhavya Rishi - Gold -Ananya Goel - Silver 12 – 16 Oct. 2012
C.B.S.E. Badminton Championship held at Ludlow Castle School
Girls U-14 – Bhavya Rishi - Silver -Ananya Goel - Silver -Shivika Sharma - Silver All of them were selected for School C.B.S.E. Nationals
10 – 16 Oct. 2012
Asian Youth Badminton Championship held at China
Mr.S.D.Sharma, our Badminton Coach, was selected to escort the Indian team (Boys U-15) which won the Bronze medal
BASKETBALL Date/ Month 6-12Nov. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp School National Games held at Chhattisgarh
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Boys & Girls U-14 - Participation
26-30 Nov.2011
Girls U-19 – 2nd Runners Up
27Nov -3Dec 2011
Inter Zonal Basketball Championship held at Pitampura ASN Yamuna Wealth Inter School Basketball Championship held at Mayur Vihar
28Dec 2011 -3Jan 2012
57th National School Games Basketball Championship organized by SGFI at New Delhi
Our following six students have been selected from the IPSC team to play in Boys Team U-19 and Girls Team U-19: Satyam, Archit, Ayush, Padmavathy R,, Arzoo, Aastha
26 Dec. 2011 -3 Jan. 2012
57th National School Games Basketball Championship organized by SGFI at New Delhi
Our following students were selected to play from Delhi State teams in Boys (U19) and Girls (U-19) : -Akimjeet Singh Sohal – Gold Medal - Padmavati R. - Gold Medal - Bhavika Chopra - Gold Medal - Ankita Sehrawat - Gold Medal
10 Jan. 10 Feb. 2012 17 - 22 April 2012
Basketball India Camp held at IGI Stadium, New Delhi
Akimjeet Singh Sohal and attended the India Camp.
12th Win Mumby Basketball Tournament held at Woodstock School, Mussoorie
Sr. Girls – Gold Performance of Padmavathy R. Madhu Kumari were praiseworthy
30 Apr12 May 2012
All India Golden Jubilee Girls Basketball Tournament held at Welhams School,
Sr. Girls – Gold Padmavati was declared the „Most Valuable Player‟ of the tournament and
Boys U-17 - Silver Girls U-17 - Gold
Padmavati
and
6 – 12 May 2012
Dehradun
was awarded Rs.15,000/-
Addidas
39th National Basketball Championship held at Goa
Boys & Girls U-14 –
Kit
Pranav Manchanda, Srishti Manvika Aneja, Shivani Mehta
worth
Vermani,
3–5 Aug. 2012
DDA Invitational Inter School Basketball Tournament held Sports Complex, Ashok Vihar
Sr. Girls – Winner
6 Aug – 18 Sep. 2012
Basketball India Camp held at Bangalore
Madhu Kumari has been selected for Girls U-19 India Team
16-18 Aug. 2012
Inter School Zonal Basketball Championship held at Carmel Convent School, New Delhi
Sr. Boys – Winner
Sr. Boys – Runners Up
Jr. Boys – Winner Sub. Jr. Boys – Runners Sr. Girls – Winner Jr. Girls – Winner Sub. Jr. Girls – Runners
10 Sept. 2012
National Basketball Association (NBA) Clinic was held in Modern School, Barakhamba Road by Mr.Robert Horry
It was attended by basketball players of all age groups.
20 - 30 Sept‟12
Basketball India Camp to be held at China
Madhu Kumari has been selected for Girls U-18 India Team
24-28 Sept. 2012
I.P.S.C. Basketball Championship held at Punjab Public School, Nabha
Sr.Girls – Runners Up
30 Sep. -6 Oct. 2012
FIBA Asia Girls Basketball Championship to be held in Malaysia
Madhu Kumari has been selected for Girls U-18 India Team
Oct. 2012
Basketball India Camp to be held at IGI, Delhi
Boys & Girls U-19 Akimjeet Singh and Padmavathy R. have been selected for Boys & Girls U-19 India Camp
6-14 Oct. 2012
Youth Open Nationals held at Indore
Boys U-17 – Shubhankar Gupta - Silver National Position Holder
Shipra Berera – Top Scorer
Girls U-17–Aastha Tandon – Participation 9-12 Oct. 2012
„Love in Action‟ Basketball Tournament held at Somervile School
Junior Boys – Winners
10-21 Oct. 2012
Inter Zonal Basketball Tournament held at Pitampura, New Delhi
Sr. Girls – Runners Up
11-19 Oct. 2012
DDA Invitational Basketball Tournament held at DDA Sports Complex, Vasant Kunj
Sr.Boys – Third
14-18 Oct, 2012
C.B.S.E. Cluster BasketBall Championship held at Bloom Public School, Vasant Kunj
Sr. Girls – Winner
14-19 Oct. 2012
Basketball Championship held at St.Michaels School, Pusa Road, New Delhi
Sr.Boys – Winners Akimjeet – Most Valuable Player
Sr.Girls – Winners
Sr.Girls – Winners Madhu Kumar – Most Valuable Player 24 Oct.3 Nov.
S.G.F.I. Nationals held at Kota
Girls U-19 – Presently Participating Shipra Berera, Ananya Sachdev, Bhavika Chopra
25-29 Oct. 2012
IPSC Boys Tournament held at Scindia School, Gwalior
Boys U-19 – Winners Akimjeet Singh – Most valuable Player Created history in the IPSC by being the top scorer
CRICKET (BOYS’ TEAM) Date/ Month 1–7 Dec. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp Inter Zonal Cricket Tournament organized by the Sports Branch of Directorate of Education in Government School, Vikas Puri
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Ten cricketers of our school were the players of the team which represented the „Zone-26‟ and the team won the third position with cash award of Rs.5,000/-
1 – 13 Dec. 2011
Cricket Tournament for „Vijay Merchant‟ Trophy being organized by the B.C.C.I.
Our three students were selected and played in U-16 team Himmat Singh – As Captain of Delhi team Pragam Sharma, Sarang Rawat
24-30 Dec. 2011
57th National School Games Cricket Championship to be organized by SGFI at Mumbai
Our following four students were selected from the IPSC team to play in U-14 team Madhav Kaushik, Rahul Singha, shaan Dabla, Himang Tomar
26Dec. 20112 Jan. 2012
57th National School Games Cricket Championship for „C.K.Naidu Trophy‟ organized by SGFI in Delhi
Lokesh Chhabra, Siddharth Dhankar and Ishan Sethi were selected from the IPSC team to play in U-19 team
28Dec 2011 -4Jan 2012
57th National School Games Cricket Championship for „Vinu Mankat Trophy‟ to be organized by SGFI at Chandigarh
Our following four students were selected from the IPSC team to play in U-16 team Himmat Singh, Pragam Sharma, Biren Singh, Raghav Sabharwal
Dec. 2011
4th Hargopal Cricket Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road
Our school won the tournament and Pragam Sharma - „Man of the Match‟ title
27 Mar2 Apr. 2012
10th H.H.Madhavrao Scindia Memorial Cricket Tournament held at Scindia School, Gwalior
Boys – U-19 – Winner Pragam Sharma – Best Batsman
9 – 13 April 2012
11th Dhruv Pandav T-20 Memorial Cricket Tournament held at Yadavindra Public School, Patiala
U 19 – Winner Ashish Sherawat – Best Batsman Vibhor Aggarwal – Best Bowler
4 – 11 May 2012
14th Mascot Inter School Cricket Tournament held at Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad
U 19 – Winner Himmat Singh – Best Batsman Shrey Tanwar – Best Bowler Pragam Sharma – Player Tournament
28 Sept. -2 Oct. 2012
All India I.P.S.C. Cricket Tournament held at Yadavindra Public School, Patiala
U 16 – Runners Up Madhav Kaushik – Best Batsman
8 – 24 Oct. 2012
22nd Radha Krishan Cricket Tournament held at Cambridge Foundation School
U 19 – Winner
18 – 25 Oct. 2012
North Zone Inter State Cricket Tournament held at Chandigarh
U-19 – Winner Sarang Rawat was selected for DDCA
18 – 25 Oct. 2012
Centre Zone Inter State Cricket Tournament held at
Ashish Sherawat & Karan Mahajan were selected for Indian Railways
of
the
CRICKET (GIRLS’ TEAM) Date/ Month 11-14 Nov. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp Super Seven Cricket Youth Nationals held at Shimla
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Vaishali Mathur, Sanjana Bhatnagar, Rhea Aggarwal, Srishti Vijra, Kanupriya Seth, Neha Chillar, Poorva Joshi, Gurpriya Seth and Tanya Arora of our school were the players of Girls U-21 cricket team of the nationals. Team was the „Winner‟ & Vaishali Mathur was declared the „Best Batswoman‟ of the tournament
15-20 Dec.2011
57th National School Games Cricket (Girls) Tournament held at Jammu
11 – 13 May 2012
DDCA Inter School Cricket Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road
8 – 17 Oct. 2012
North Zone Inter Cricket Tournament held at Rohtak
Seven students participated from the I.P.S.C. U-19 team. Neha Chillar participated from Delhi State team and got the „Runners Up‟ title U 19 – Runners Up
U 19 – Third Srishti Vijra, Neha Chillar and Vaishali Mathur were selected for DDCA
CHESS Date/ Month 28 Nov -2 Dec. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp C.B.S.E. National Chess Championship held at DAV Model School, Durgapur, West Bengal
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Arunima Kalra, Harshal Shahi, Madhurima Shekhar, Parth Bhatia and Vaibhav Suri – U-19 – Runners Up
17-22 Dec. 2011
Asian School Chess Championship held at New Delhi
Madhurima Shekhar – U-15 – Winner She was also selected to participate in the world championship.
10 – 20 Jan. 2012
10th Parsvnath Individual Chess Championship held at Ludlo Castle School Mohini Virendra Singh Chess Championship held at Modern School, Vasant Vihar
Boys & Girls „Open‟ Vaibhav Suri – 8th position Madhurima Shekhar – Best Girl in Delhi
23-25 Jan. 2012
Arunima Kalra, Harshal Shahi, Madhurima Shekhar, Parth Bhatia and Vaibhav Suri – U-19 – Winners
27-29 Inter school Chess Jan.2012 Championship organized by Shri Ram School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
Harshal Shahi, Parth Bhatia and Vaibhav Suri – U-14 – Winners
1-3 Feb. 2012
Inter school Chess Championship organized by Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi
Arunima Kalra, Harshal Shahi, Madhurima Shekhar, Parth Bhatia and Vaibhav Suri – U-19 – Winners
7 – 17 Feb. 2012 21 – 25 March 2012 13 – 24 April 2012 18 – 19 April
Aeroflot Open Chess Championship held at Moscow
„Open‟ – Vaibhav Suri, Harshal Shahi and Madhurima Shekhar – Participation
Naurang International Rated Chess Tournament at K.G.Marg Dubai Open 2012 at Dubai Cultural Centre, UAE
Boys U-19 Harshal Shahi – 7th position
Delhi State Women Championship at
Women – Arunima Kalra – First
Chess Amity
Girls & Boyr „Open‟ Madhurima Shekhar – Made a WIN Norm
2012 24 – 25 April 2012
International School, Vihar Delhi State Championship at International School, Vihar
Pushp
Open – Mudra Shahi – 5th Position
Chess Amity Pushp
Boys & Girls U-19 - 3rd Position Arunima Kalra, Madhurima Shekhar, Arnav Batra, Sanskar Agarwal, Nithin Vytla
24 – 30 April 2012
3rd LUC Open in France
„Open‟ – Vaibhav Suri – 1st Position Won the 3rd Norm with Grandmaster title. Currently, Youngest Grandmaster in the world
July 2012
Chess Open National Championship held at Kanpur
Boys U 17 Vaibhav Suri won the Gold Medal
6-8 Sept. 2012
North Zone C.B.S.E. Chess Championship
U 19 – Winner Harshal Shahi (Board No.1) Vaibhav Suri (Board No.2) Arunima Kalra, Parth Bhatia,
Sept. 2012
3rd Bansidhar Inter School Chess Championship held at Doon School
U 19 – Winner Harshal Shahi, Arunima Kalra, Bhatia, Madhurima Shekhar
Oct. 2012
Inter School Chess Championship held at Apeejay School, New Delhi
U 19– Winner– Cash Prize Rs.36,000/Arunima Kalra, Vaibhav Suri, Harshal Shahi, Madhurima Shekhar
Parth
EQUESTRIAN Date/ Month 19-29 Dec.2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp Jr. Jumping Normal MNEC Jr. Jumping Topscore MNEC Open Dressage MNEC 3-Day Evening SNEC
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Nitin Bawa - National U 25 - 2nd - National U 25 - 2nd -National Open – 1st -National Open – 5th
17 May 2012
EFI International Open-2014
Nitin Bawa–Selected for Indian Team 2014 (EFI)
FOOTBALL (BOYS’ TEAM) Date/ Month 21-27 Nov. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp Inter Zonal Football Tournament organized by the Sports Branch of Directorate of Education at Chhatrasal Stadium, Delhi
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Boys U-14- Winners under Captainship of Rohan Aggarwal and Varun Pant. Each player got a cash prize of Rs.1,000/-.
17-22 Dec. 2011
57th National School Games Football Tournament organized by SGFI at Chandigarh
Following six students of our school have been selected from IPSC team to play in Sub-Junior Team: -Lakshay Mahajan -Varun Pant
-Prakash Sharma -Mudit Gupta -Rohan Aggarwal -Vyom Aggarwal 30 Nov. 2011 – 11 Dec. 2011 1–9 Dec. 2011
Inter school Football Tournament held at Sanskriti School, New Delhi
Boys – U-19 – Winners
57th National School Games Girls Football Championship organized by SGFI at Andaman Nicobar Island
Nov. 2011
Subroto Cup Tournament
Our girls participated from the I.P.S.C. team and got -Cash Prize Award of Rs.5,000/-Fair Play Award -Best Marching Contingent Award Boys U-19 – Akshay Mohan was awarded Rs.20,000/for his outstanding performance in Subroto Cup
6 – June 2012
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22 – 27 July 2012 3-8 Aug. 2012
21-28 Aug. 2012
Football
All India Football IPSC held at Phoenix Residential Public School, Belgaum, Karnataka
Boys U-17 – Winner
4th Archbishop Angelo Fernandez Memorial Football Tournament held at St.Michael‟s Sr.Sec. School Pusa Road, New Delhi Football Tournament held at Mother‟s International School, New Delhi
Sr.Boys – Won the tournament
Inter Zonal Football Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road
U-19 - Winners U-17 – Winners U-14 – Winners
Abhishek Singh was declared the „Player of the Tournament‟ U-19 – Runners Up
FOOTBALL (GIRLS’ TEAM) Date/ Month 24 – 28 June 2012 8 – 13 Oct. 2012
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp IPSC Rajkumar College, Raipur
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players U 17 – Third Kairavi Munjal – Most Promising Player
Football Link International Fest held at Thyagrajan Stadium
U 19 – First Dhwani Kitchlue – Best Player Kavya Khanna – Best Striker Mehar Kochhar – Best Mid Fielder Ishveena Kaur – Best Defender
GOLF Date/ Month
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players
23-25 April 2012
Inter School Golf Tournament for „Lalit Trophy‟ held at Qutub Golf Course
Team A – First - Arjan Puri -Uday Veer Wadhwa Individual A – First – Uday Veer Wadhwa Individual B - First - Arjun Raj Bahadur Individual B– Second – Shivam Bose -Ashvika Gogia
14 July 2012
CGGT IGU Golf Championship held at
Arjun Bahadur – First
5-6 Sept. 2012
B.D.A.Steel Golf Championship held at Delhi Golf Club
Team A – Winner Praiseworthy Performance - Sifat Alag, Karan Chillani, Sameer Aggarwal Team B – Winner Praiseworthy Performance – Shivam Bose, Toshane Khullar, Bikram Kochhar Team C – Winner Praiseworthy Performance – Seerat Alag, Jasmine Kaur, Anika Bahadur
LAWN TENNIS Date/ Month 28 Dec. 2011 3 Jan. 2012
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp 57th National School Games conducted by DLTA in New Delhi
30 Apr. -5 May 2012
Interschool Lawn Tennis Tournament held at Bal Bharati Public School
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Six students of our school participated from Delhi State. Chinmay individually got a Gold Medal Boys–U-14 – Winners – Chinmay, Arnav Vadera, Ratik Kapur, Aryamaan Sood Boys–U-19 – Winners – Karan Salwan, Dhruv Gupta, Sidharth Anand, Ankit Gupta
14 - 28 May 2012
AITA Talent Series, Vikas Puri
Boys Singles – Chinmaya–Runners UP
28 May – 1 June 2012
AITA Talent Series, Pitampura
Boys Singles–Arnav Vadhera Runners Up
28 May -1 June 2012
A.I.T.A. Talent Series held at Pitam Pura
5 -10 June 2012
A.I.T.A. Talent Series held at Patna
Boys Double – Runners Up Boys Singles –Ratik Kapoor - Runners Up Boys Doubles–Ratik Kapoor - Runners Up Boys Singles-U-14 – Chinmaya - Semi final Boys Doubles-U-14 - Runners Up
2-7 July 2012
A.I.T.A. Talent Series held at Noida
Boy U 14 – Boys Singles–Runners Up
28 July – 4 Aug. 2012
I.T.F. Zimbabwe
Boy U-18 – Runners Up
25 Aug. -2 Sept. 2012
Zonal Tournament held at Modern School, Barakhamba Road
Sr. Girls – Winners Sr. Boys – Winners Jr. Boys – Winners Sub. Jr. Girls – Winners
8 – 12 Oct. 2012
DSCL Fenesta Open National Tennis Tournament held at R.K.Puram
Boys U 18 –Karan Salwan–Runners Up
12-15 Oct. 2012
CBSE North Zone Tennis Tournament at M.M.Public School, Pitampura
Girls U 14 – Runners Up
Karan Salwan represented India
SWIMMING Date/ Month 25-29 Nov. 2011 11 -15 July 2012
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp Women Festival Swimming Meet held at Bhopal
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Girls U-21 –Anjali Nair - Won one Gold and Three Bronze Medals
39th Junior National Aquatic Championship held at Chennai
The following students were selected by the Delhi Swimming Association to represent Delhi State in the 39th Junior National Aquatic Championship: Boys & Girls U-19 Dhruv Gautam Mudit Kohli, Greesha Mehta, Ragini Sehgal, Anjali Nair, Ridhi Kapoor Greesha Mehta and Anjali Nair qualified for the finals and secured 5th and 8th position in 400m freestyle and 50m freestyle respectively Dhruv Gautam, Mudit Kohli and Ridhi Kapoor were selected to represent Delhi Team U-19 in Waterpolo.
2–4 Sept. 2012
CBSE North Zone Swimming Championship held at Yuva Shakti Nagar School, Rohini
Boys U-19 Bobby Rana – 4 Gold, 1 Silver Vinayak Gupta – 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Bobby Rana, Vinayak Gupta, Mudit Kohli, Arjan Gupta, Aakash Patnayak 4x100 Medley Relay - Gold 4x100 Freestyle Relay – Gold Girls U-19
Anjali Nair – Best Swimmer – 5 Golds Raagini Sehgal – 2 Silver, 2 Bronze Devika Kapur – 1 Bronze Mannat Singh – 1 Bronze Girls U 17 Anjali Nair, Raagini Sehgal, Devika Kapur, Mannat Singh, Niharika Shukla 4x100 Free Style Relay – Gold 4x100 Medley Relay – Gold Greesha Mehta – 4 Gold, 1 Silver 7–9 Sept. 2012
Delhi State Swimming Meet held at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Swimming Complex
Boys U-19 Bobby Rana – Best Swimmer – 5 Gold Vinayak Gupta – 1 Bronze Girls U-19 Anjali Nair – Best Swimmer – 5 Gold Greesha Mehta – 3 Gold, 2 Silver Prerna Batra – 1 Bronze 4x100 Free Style Relay – 3 Gold 4x100 Medley Relay 4x200 Free Style Relay – 1 Bronze Greesha Mehta, Anjali Nair, Raagini Sehgal, Mehek Mobin, Prerna Batra Waterpolo Boys Team – Silver Girls Team – Silver
29 Sept. -1 Oct. 2012
IPSC Swimming Meet held at D.P.S. R.K.Puram
Boys U 19 Vinayak Gupta – 2 Silver, 1 Bronze Bobby Rana – Best Swimmer – 5 Gold 3 New Meet Records Mudit Kohli – 1 Bronze, 1 Silver Akash Patnayak – 2 Bronze 4x100 Free Style Relay - Gold 4x100 Medley Relay - Gold Bobby Rana, Mudit Kohli, Vinayak Gupta, Akash Patnayak Girls U 19 Anjali Nair – Best Swimmer - 5 Gold 1 New Meet Record Ridhhi Kapoor – 2 Silver Raagini Sehgal – 1 Bronze, 1 Silver Ankita Sehrawat – 1 Silver 4x100 Free Style Relay – Gold
4x100 Medley Relay – Gold Anjali Nair, Riddhi Kapoor, Ankita Sehrawat, Raagini Sehgal, Sarah Nagpal, Ananya Rastogi Boys U 17 Raghav Saraf – 3 Gold Girls U 17 Greesha Mehta – 3 Gold, 2 Silver Mehek Mobin – 1 Bronze 4x100 Medley Relay – 1 Bronze Greesha Mehta, Prerna Batra, Mehek Mobin, Ashna Virmani Boys U 14 Priyank Rana – Best Swimmer – 4 Gold 3 New Meet Records Boys U 19 – Team Championship Girls U 19 – Team Championship Overall Team Championship Boys U 19 -Bobby Rana–Best Swimmer Girls U 19 –Anjali Nair –Best Swimmer Boys U 14-Priyank Rana–Best Swimmer 1-5 Oct. 2012
Senior Nationals Aquatic Meet Held at Pune
Women - Mehek Mobin – Participation
16-19 Oct. 2012
Inter School Aquatic Meet organized by Directorate of Education (Sports Branch) held at Sarvodaya Co-Ed. Sr. Sec. Vidyalaya, Mangolpuri
Boys U-19 Vinayak Gupta – 1 Silver Bobby Rana – Best Swimmer – 5 Gold 4x100 Free Style Relay – Gold 4x100 Medley Relay – Gold Mudit Kohli, Vinayak Gupta, Arjan Gupta, Akash Patnayak, Bobby Rana Girls U-19 Anjali Nair – Best Swimmer – 3 Gold, 2 Silver Raagini Sehgal – 2 Bronze Ankita Sehrawat – 1 Bronze 4x100 Free Style Relay – Gold Ankita Sehrawat, Riddhi Kapoor, Anjali Nair, Raagini Sehgal Girls U-17 Greesha Mehta – 3 Gold, 2 Silver Mehek Mobin – 1 Silver, 2 Bronze Nivan Mamak – 1 Bronze
Boys U-14 Priyank Rana – Best Swimmer- 4 Gold Girls U-14 Sadhika Lamba – 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Niharika Shukla - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Mannat Singh - 1 Gold, 1 Silver 4x100 Free Style Relay – 1 Bronze 4x100 Medley Relay – 1 Gold Mannat Singh, Niharika Shukla, Sadhika Lamba, Devika Kapur, Nimani Bhargava Waterpolo Boys Team – Gold 6-9 Nov. 2012
C.B.S.E. Swimming Championship to be held in Pune
Selected Swimmers for participation – Bobby Rana, Mudit Kohli, Arjan Gupta, Vinayak Gupta, Akash Patnayak, Anjali Nair, Greesha Mehta, Raagini Sehgal, Devika Kapoor, Mannat Singh, Niharika Shukla, Priyank Rana
SHOOTING Date/ Month 21-24 Oct. 2012
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp IPSC Shooting Championship held at Daly College, Indore
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Nehmat Mongia – Gold in Air Pistol 177
TABLE TENNIS Date/ Month 26-28 Nov. 2011
Name of the Tournament/ Championship/Camp 1st Deep Memorial Inter School Table Tennis Tournament held at Ramprastha School, Ghaziabad
Category/Position Secured/Names of the Players Boys U-17 – Winner
14-22 Jan. 2012
57th National School Games Table Tennis Championship held at Rajkot
16-18 July 2012
Delhi State Table Tennis held at Indira Gandhi Stadium
Participation from IPSC team U-19 - One IPSC team U-17 - Three IPSC team U-14 - One Participation from Delhi State team Rishabh Kapoor – U-19 – Gold Mochak Soni - U-19 – Gold Boys U-19
Boys U-17 – Team Event – 2nd Runners Up Kartikey Aggarwal, Shrey Rajesh and Raghav
Mochak Soni – Bronze
6 – 11 Aug. 2012
Inter School Zone-26 Table Tennis Championship held at Raisina Bengali School
Boys U-19 – Winner Boys U-17 - Winner Boys U-14 – Winner Girls U-14 – Runners Up
8 Aug. 2012
Inter School Zone-26
Girls U-17 – Bronze
17-21 Sept. 2012
C.B.S.E. Table Tennis Championship held at Crescent Public School, Pitampura
Boys U-19 – Runner Up
15 – 20 Oct. 2012
I.P.S.C. Table Tennis Championship held at Sainik School, Bijapur, Karnataka
Boys U-19 – Winner Boys U-16 – Winner Boys U-14 – Runner Up
15 – 20 Oct. 2012
SGFI Camp for Individual I.P.S.C. Championship 2012
National Selections Boys U 19 Rishabh Sachdeva – Gold Mochak Soni – Silver Raghav Pangasa – Bronze Boys U 17 Akash Bhalothia – Gold Sahil Bhargava - Bronze Boys U 14 Shivam Gupta - Gold
16.
P.T.A. Members of the P.T.A. initiated a „Book Bank‟ drive this year again by sending SMS to all parents. In April 2012, they collected used books/extra books from students to be used by our junior students and by NGOs working with under privileged children. PTA Dinner, annual event of the School, was organized on 14th April 2012 for parents of Middle School and on 20th April 2012 for parents of Secondary & Senior School. Both were well attended by teachers and parents. P.T.A. Academic Award functions were held on 23rd and 24th August 2012 to honour academic achievers of the year 2011-2012 from classes S1 to S7. Mrs.Geetanjali Chanda; Member; Board of Trustees; Modern Schools and Mrs.Ketaki Sood; Member; Board of Trustees; Modern Schools and also a Member of our Managing Committee, were the Chief Guests. 329 awards were given to 267 students for their meritorious academic performances during the year. PTA Sports Award function was held on 6th September 2012 to honour sportspersons who brought laurels to the School during the year 2011-2012. Mr.Pushkar Vohra, Dy.Director (Sports), Central Board of Secondary Education, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and gave away prizes to sportspersons.
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M.S.O.S.A
Modern School Old Students‟ Association organized its annual debate on 28th November 2011. Over ten reputed school of Delhi participated in the competition. Arjun Verma and Chahat Kapila represented our school in the junior category andthe team was declared as the „Winner‟. Arjun Verma was adjudged the „Best Speaker‟. Senior team of our school was represented by Gayatri Sabharwal and Pranay Lekhi. The team got the „Runners Up‟ title and Gayatri Sabharwal was chosen the „Best Speaker‟. M.S.O.S.A. held its 8th Annual Interschool Invitational Mohini Virendra Singh Squash Tournament from 6th to 12th December 2011. Our school‟s teams U-19 and U-13 were declared the winners and U-15 got the runners up title. M.S.O.S.A. also conducted its 8th Annual Interschool Invitational Hockety Tournament from 6th to 12 December 2011. Our school‟s team got the Runner Up title and Keshav was given the „Best Player‟ award. MSOSA organized its Annual Sports Day in school on 18th December 2011. Present Modernites played matches with former Modernites in various games i.e. badminton, basketball (boys & girls, cricket, football, hockey, lawn tennis, squash etc. Present Modernits won the matches in badminton, basketball (girls) and football and got the runners up title in lawn tennis. Our girls and boys both won the 4x100 mt. relay race. 18.
MODERNITES’ TRUST Hritika Jimmy, Khyati Mehra, Sanyukta Bhattacharya & Varun Khurana were awarded 100% scholarship whereas Pratika Rawal was given 50% scholarship by the Modernites Trust and were admitted to class VI.
Sir, before I conclude, I wish to state that in keeping with the Lalajee‟s vision, we continue to carry on the tradition and maintain high standards. We have not only produced academic toppers but also have sports persons of National and International levels amongst the students on our rolls. This has been made possible by the dedicated and untiring efforts of our Headmasters - Mr. Giri, Mrs.Vijai Singh, Mrs.Malini Khatri, Mrs.Rita Gupta, Dean – Academics & Examination – Mrs.Neera Kapur, Dean-Physical Education - Mrs.Meena Joshi and her team, Dean Co-curricular Activities – Mrs.Usha Nair, the HODs, the Housemasters and all the teachers. They all deserve our appreciation and commendation. I also thank Mr.Nawal Singh and Mr.G.Sarkar for their artistic and technical support for all activities/functions of the school. Our thanks are also due to the Administrative staff led by Mr.Balbir Sharma, and Karamcharis with whose unstinted support, we continue to excel in all spheres of our activities. Lastly, our grateful thanks are due to the Trustees and the Members of the Managing Committee for their continued guidance and inspiration.
